Junko Takase

For readers of BUTTER and CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN comes Junko Takase's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel about the pressures of modern life, and the pleasure of eating well WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE 'So bracing, so strange and humane . . . I loved it.' SHARLENE TEO, author of PONTI 'Funny . . . All the people in this novel are alive.'...

For readers of Breasts and Eggs and Convenience Store Woman comes Junko Takase's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel about the pressures of modern life, and the pleasure of eating well. WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE 'So bracing, so strange and humane . . . I loved it.' – Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Funny . . . All the people in this...